[SKZ Fic] Update: If You Think the Coffee Sucks...

[zephyrini]

Chapter 21: Needed introductions is posted and live!

The next chapter will be told from Jisung's POV and will feature dinner at the Seo house, meeting the previously mentioned Detective Seo, and more! (stay tuned!)

Random world-building notes for Chapter 21:

• Throughout the fic, Chan and Jisung have both considered themselves fathers (or fathers-to-be) to Jeongin's unborn baby, despite having no genetic/blood relation to said child. Part of that is because their pack is pretty small and they're expecting to be the only other parental figures available, but it's also not uncommon in packs for most or all of the adult figures to be called mother or father by the pack's children.
  
  That said, it's also not uncommon for children to only call their actual sires and dam "mother/father", and all other adults "aunt/uncle". The only exception is the Pack Alpha, who is always addressed mother/father regardless of genetics.
  
  (In the terms of believable linguists, there would probably be specific terms of address for "the mate of my bio parents who also helped raise me", particularly in languages like Korean, but I'm not gonna try to conlang that, so here's the system I'm patching in instead.)


• South Korea and a number of other countries are pretty strict on requiring that Mated packs have to have a core breeding trio (alpha, beta, omega), but there are also countries that are less particular. Mated packs with only two dynamics represented tend to have more acceptance than single-dynamic packs, but not by a whole lot.